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Record W4400446159 · doi:10.1086/729910

Hope as Refusal: Queer, Feminist Futurity

2024· article· en· W4400446159 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSigns · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsWomen's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueerGender studiesSociologyTransgender

Abstract

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Lived experience and the critical work of feminist and queer scholars across disciplines have shown that political hope—which, at face value, signals optimism about the possibility of social transformation—often disappoints due to the concealment of an underlying complicity with the status quo and its structuring violence. In the face of these failures, ought we reject hope altogether and embrace negativity and refusal, as Lee Edelman suggests in No Future? Rejecting the common binary opposition between hope and refusal, this article instead coins and proposes the practice of “hope as refusal.” To employ hope as refusal, I argue, requires rejecting inevitability in all its forms, including the naively hopeful belief that “progress” is inevitable and the complacently hopeless belief that the violence of the present is inevitable. Instead, I draw from queer women of color and Black feminisms to argue for the inseparability of refusing the world of our present and striving for the possibility of other worlds and futures that do not merely perpetuate it. I turn to Saidiya Hartman’s writings, as well as her work as a founding member of the Practicing Refusal Collective, as illuminating examples of projects shaped by hope as refusal.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it